Straight from Bryan Burns’ game notes: “[Nikita] Kucherov has scored a goal in six straight games to start the season, joining Steve Yzerman (1988-89), Mario Lemieux (1992-93) and Keith Tkachuk (2008-09) as the only NHL players to do so in the last 30 years.” This isn’t all. Kucherov has also scored the Bolts’ most game-winning-goals (3), and paces the team for most goals (7) for second place in the NHL behind Alex Ovechkin (9). Read Hardev’s recap here. [Raw Charge]
But enough boasting on Kucherov. Let’s ponder this further bit of wisdom from Bryan and wonder where it might take us when Andrei Vasilevskiy gets exhausted: “The Bolts have been outshot in five of six games to start 2017-18 and are 4-1-0 when being outshot.